this is all the power and the money and the energy that the right can muster, being directed at incumbent republicans to throw republicans out of office. i mean, no democratic candidate in mississippi was going to turf thad cochran out of office next year. look at the margins by which he has won his last few elections. 69%, 29% in a bad year. this is what you call a safe seat as long as thad cochran is sitting in it. but he might not be in that seat anymore. and that situation for an incumbent republican senator is not just in mississippi. it's also in georgia, with johnny isaacson, jeff flake, north carolina with richard burr. and it's true for the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell in kentucky. these guys are all facing primary challengers. they are all now facing negative adds that are running right now in their home states. negative ads, primary challengers, and all the rest, from what is supposed to be their own side. the senate conservatives fund, the tea party group, that's trying to throw mitch mcconnell out of his senate seat, they are already, already in 2013, doing b